Bio of FURBER, Fred N. (b.1868), Hennepin Co., MN
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EXTRACTED FROM: History of Minneapolis, Gateway to the Northwest;
Chicago-Minneapolis, The S J Clarke Publishing Co, 1923; Edited by: Rev.
Marion Daniel Shutter, D.D., LL.D.; Volume I - Shutter (Historical);
volume II - Biographical; volume III - Biographical
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FRED N. FURBER - Vol II, pg 418-421
Fred N. Furber is a successful practicing attorney of Minneapolis and throughout
his career he has maintained the highest standards of professional ethics. He is
one of Minnesota's native sons and was born in Detroit, there completing his
high school course. He later entered the law school of the State University,
from which he was graduated with the class of 1914, and at once took up the work
of his profession, becoming con­nected with the legal department of the American
Surety Company of Minneapolis. He later associated himself with the law firm of
Kerr & Fowler and is now a member of the firm of Fowler, Carlson, Furber &
Johnson, which has been accorded a liberal clientele. Mr. Furber engages in
general practice but specializes to a considerable extent in insur­ance, tax and
corporation law and his high professional standing is indicated in the fact that
in 1920 he was appointed special United States attorney and was called to
Washington. D. C., to serve in the office of the solicitor of internal revenue.
Mr. Furber is an able lawyer, with a wide knowledge of the principles of
jurisprudence and his care­ful analysis enables him correctly to apply his legal
learning to the points at issue.
Mr. Furber is a veteran of the World war, his term of service covering two years
and four months. He entered the Officers Training Camp at Fort Snelling, where
he was commissioned a first lieutenant of Field Artillery, and was assigned to
the Three Hundred and Thirty-seventh Field Artillery, being transferred to Camp
Dodge. He volunteered as an aerial observer and went through the military aerial
observation and aerial gunnery schools, at Post Field, Fort Sill, Oklahoma, and
Selfridge Field at Mount Clemens, Michigan. In August, 1918, he was sent to
France and served with the Eighty-fifth and One Hundred and Sixty-eighth Aero
Squadrons in the Argonne. After the signing of the armistice he was with the
Army of Occupation at Sinzig, Germany, and in the summer of 1919 served as an
official with the allied games in Paris, France. In August, 1919, he returned to
the United States and was discharged at Camp Dodge, on the 8th of September of
that year. He is a member of the American Legion and of the Military Order of
the Great War, an officers' organization.
On the 14th of May, 1920, Mr. Furber was united in marriage to Miss Dorothy
Morse of Detroit, Minnesota, and they have a large circle of friends in the
city. Mr. Furber is a Mason and a member of the Minneapolis Society of Fine
Arts, the Interlachen Country Club and the Minneapolis Athletic Club. He also
belongs to the American Bar Association and the Minnesota and Hennepin County
Bar associations. He is an alert and enterprising young man, who has gained an
enviable reputation in a profession which calls for a high order of ability and
requires close application, good judgment and a constantly widening
comprehension of the relations and responsibilities which go to make up
civilized society.